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Sergi López, Maribel Verdu, Ivana Baquero, Álex Angulo, Doug Jones
"Pan's Labyrinth" is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother's new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco's victory. The girl live...( read more
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A girl ,obsessed with fairy tales and living with a sadistic stepfather who hunts Communist guerrillas in post-Civil War Spain, is informed by a faun that he will restore her to her throne as an immortal fairy princess if she can complete three tasks. This would have made an exc...( read more)
A very unique and outstanding attempt on the combination of an adult fairy tale and realistic resistance war story. Director Del Toro manages to merge those two very different aspects into a very moving, exciting and entertaining movie with wonderful effects and design. Definitel...( read more)
While I have REAL problems with the second task Ophelia was given, I think this is a well made movie. I'd like to see it a few more times, before I make my final verdict...
I was absolutely blown away by this film. Being a huge fan of Cronos, I'd hoped Guillermo del Toro would return more to his roots in direction. Don't get me wrong, I love Hellboy, its just that this is what he does best. Brilliant, possibly the best film so far this decade/Millen...( read more)
A very enjoyable film, that is well directed and has all round good production levels. It's almost like two films in one running side by side. It would have been a bit more interesting to see more of the fantasy characters and their world in which they live in. The film can be qu...( read more)
A spellbinding gothic fairy tale as seen through the eyes of a young girl called Ofelia. Very imaginative with a great plot and eye catching special effects. I found the ending to be heartbreaking. A must see movie.
A dark, creepy, sad tale of incorruptible innocence and ultimate sacrifice,I'm very glad I saw it...
A well made and touching film. Deserving of its fame, it's sure to make people think about the condition of Ofelia, the film's protagonist, in a world seemingly fused with one of barbarity and confusion.
I always love Guillermo's. His works could always engaged different perspective about so many things behind/ beyond all that creepy and scary stuff around us. I also like how he combined, fantasies, myth, (so often) war scene and of course - Children world and innocentness.
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